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iSwine Owners' Guide: 



BEING A SYNOPSIS OF THK 



CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT 



OF THE 



VARIOUS FORI OF DISEASES OCCURRING AMONG SWINE 



CONTAINING, ALSO, 



The Necessary Directions for Hational Treatment, 



BY MEANS OF THE 



CELEBRATED PNEUMONIC REMEDI ES, 



COMPOUNDED AND SOLD BY THOMAS C. RAYMER, ONLY. 
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PUBLISHED BY 



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THOMAS C. RAYMER, 

Dealer in and Breeder of Thorough-bred Swine. 
Monroe, Green County, Wis. 

Copyrighted, 1878, by Thos. C, Kaymer. 
band, mi'.vally <* co.. printers, chicaoo. 



AMERICAN 

SOVEREIGN 

Pneumonic Compound 

MEDICINES 

Are a sovereign remedy for the treatment of all the 
various diseases of the Swine originating from cold, 
as Peumonia, and various other affections of like 
character. 

I would ask a fair trial of these remedies, know- 
ing them to be the best preparations of the kind 
ever before offered to the public. 

The Trade will be supplied on liberal terms by 
the Proprietor, to whom all orders should be 
addressed. 

THOMAS C. RAYMER, 

Chicago, III. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The reason why these medicines find favor with 
Swine Owners, and have such an extensive sale, is 
due to the fact that their action is always sanative ; 
they are composed of remedial agents, the action 
of which is always co-operative with the vital forces 
in the immediate restoration of the natural condi- 
tion, and they necessarily meet all affections of 
like character with prompt success. 

It has been ascertained that the art of prevent- 
ing and curing diseases consists in the use of 
remedies which ward off or remove any agent 
which, in its effects, tends to deprive any of the 
organs or tissues of the body of their vitality ; and 
that the remedial means used for this purpose must 
be such, and only such, as sustain the weakened, 
or increase the reduced vital action of any of the 
organs or tissues. 

This is the acknowledged fact of all science. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

Cholera — Cause, Symptoms, Caution, and Treatment- 7 

Care of Swine — How to Cross with the Swine and 

not meet with loss 14 

Case of Sows lying on their Pigs — Symptoms 15 

Emprosthotonos — Cause, Symptoms, Precaution 13 

How to Prevent the Sow from having Dead Pigs 15 

How to Treat Pigs at Weaning Time 16 

How to Prevent Hogs from Fighting 16 

How to get the Highest Price for your Pork 16 

Mange — Cause, Symptoms, and Treatment 10 

Measles — Cause, Symptoms, Treatment, and Remarks 11 
Pneumonia — Cause, Symptoms, Treatment, Direc- 
tions, How to give the Medicines _. 8 

Rheumatism — Cause, and Treatment 12 

Rupture — Cause, and Treatment 13 

Remarks — When the Pneumonic Medicines should 

be mixed with the Swill 16 

Thumps — Cause, Symptoms, and Treatment, and 

Effect of the Medicine 9 

Thumps in Pigs — What quantity of Medicine to give 9 

Worms — Cause, Symptoms, Treatment 11 

When it pays to feed Corn to Hogs 16 



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CAUTION. 



After carefully comparing and thoroughly test- 
ing, for the past six years, the 

PNEUMONIC REMEDIES 

And having received *so many flattering testimo- 
nials and assurances (from multitudes who have 
used them) of the superior efficiency and intrinsic 
merit of the 

PNEUMONIC MEDICINES, 

The proprietor feels that he has the best reasons 
for believing them to be, and will recommend them 
as the best 

SWINE REMEDIES 

Ever offered to the public. 

We caution our customers and the public not to 
allow themselves to be persuaded to purchase 
other medicines, as the country will be flooded 
with inferior medicines. Send for the 

PNEUMONIC MEDICINES 

For the swine, and use no other. 



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If the druggist with whom you deal does not 
keep the Pneumonic, you can procure them by 
sending to the proprietor. Address all orders to 

THOMAS C. RAYMER, 

Chicago, III. 

The medicines are put up in pint bottles, and 
sold at two dollars ($2.00) per bottle, which must 
be sent in a registered letter or Post Office order. 



A BRIEF EXPOSITION 

— OF THE — 

CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, AND TREATMENT OF SOME 

OF THE MOST COMMON DISEASES 

AMONG SWINE. 



HOC CHOLERA. 

Ca\jse. — From impurities in the air causing a 
disease of the lights. 

Symptoms. — Ephemera is the first symptom 
noticeable. This fever can be noticed by a close ex- 
amination, and will last from ten to twenty hours 
before vomiting and purging take place. In this 
early stage is when the disease is curable, and 
most catching. 

Caution. — As soon as it is known that the 
hogs have the cholera, they should be separated and 
closely examined to ascertain if any fever exists, 
and the ones having fever should be drenched at 
once with the Pneumonic medicines. 

Treatment. — Give one-fifth or sixth of a pint 
as the severeness of the case seems to require. 
If no relief in six or eight hours, give the second 
dose, which is rarely necessary ; unless the case 
was unusually severe, relief can be noticed in two 
or three minutes, and the hog will eat in ten or 
twelve hours. 



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DICOTYLE PNEUMONIA. 

Cause. — One cause, especially in the winter 
time is from catching a cold which finally settles 
into some slow type of fever. 

Symptoms. — Known and frequently called the 
thumps, from the noise made from the breathing 
from the diseased lungs; the hog will be inclined to 
stand or be on its feet, and frequently to roam over 
the lot or place where it is enclosed, and has been 
known to die on its feet, by wedging himself in 
some corner in the fence. 

This disease of the lungs is catching, and farmers 
and swine owners frequently lose from ten to 
twelve head during the winter and spring, worth 
from three to four dollars per head. 

Treatment. — Give one-fifth or sixth of a pint 
of the compound medicines, compounded by Thos. 
C. Raymer. 

Directions. — The hog must be straightened up 
and held so that he cannot sling his head when the 
medicine is poured into the mouth; place a stick 
between his jaws, and hold it with one hand to keep 
the mouth open, while the medicine is poured in. 

Farmers who have no help, and are keeping 
many swine should send for the Derrick Crane, a 
machine for straightening up the hog, which one 
man can use alone. Price, five dollars, ($5.00). 

THOMAS C. RAYMER, 

Chicago, 111. 



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THUMPS. 

Cause. — Originates from the food, by its not con- 
taining suitable elements for the blood which passes 
through the liver, causing it to become diseased. 
Shoats unusually fat, weighing from fifty to sixty 
lbs., are most liable to the Thumps. 

Treatment. — Give one-sixth pint of the Pneu- 
monic medicines. 

Caution. — Farmers feeding shorts should mix 
a small amount of the Pneumonic medicines in it, 
as this food has a bad effect on the liver. 

Sucking pigs are liable to the Pulmonary or 
Thumps ; all experienced farmers with swine have 
seen or lost a great many pigs from this disease, one 
dying out of a litter every day or two until the 
last one was dead. 

Symptoms. — Thumping with an audible sound 
from breathing, as a person affected with asthma. 

Treatment. — Give one-seventh of the pint of 
the Pneumonic medicines. 

If the case is treated in good time the hog seldom 
needs but the one dose of medicine, and the hog 
will eat in eight or ten hours; if not, give the second 
dose with an increased quantity, as the severeness 
of the case seems to require. If the medicine is 
sufficient in the first to overpower the disease, the 
hog will become perfectly quiet, mostly in a standing 
position, for several hours. So effective is the 
medicine, and so quick to act upon the liver and 
lights that the thumping and wheezing will be 



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checked in one or two minutes after the medicine 
has been given. 

MANGE. 

Cause. — The mange in the swine is caused by 
creating a disorder in the blood, mostly due to 
feeding corn alone, and no other food, which heats 
the blood and causes a humor and itch and scab, 
which is most commonly known as the mange. All 
pigs have the mange if the sow has been feed on 
corn alone, and it can plainly be seen when the pigs 
are three days old, on the ears and tail. 

Caution. — The sow should not be kept in a close 
dry pen and fed corn, unless you have swill or 
milk, or other food. Pigs will take the mange if 
the sow is kept on corn and water alone, which 
is the cause of the impurity of .the milk. Pigs are 
often almost ruined at weaning time, by being kept 
on corn and water alone; oats and other food should 
be fed, and corn very sparingly, to prevent heating 
the blood and causing a humor. 

There is danger in heating the blood by letting 
two many sleep together, especially in wet straw. 
There are various other causes, but I have men- 
tioned the most common cause in feeding corn 
alone as food. 

Symptoms. — When you see nine out of ten rub- 
bing and scratching around, or on the corners of your 
fence, hair thin and skin red, and inclined to lie in 
the nest all day and sweat. 

Treatment. — Feed oats, milk, and potatoes, and 
have a separate place for each one to sleep. 



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WORMS. 

Cause. — Caused from kind of food taken into the 
stomach. Mostly occurring in spring, among shoats. 

Symptoms. — Loss of appetite, and lying in the 
nest all day. 

Remedy. — Give one dose of the Pneumonic 
medicines, which will relieve them if they are near 
the pancreas or stomach. If that should fail, give 
a tablespoonful of tansy juice, or more, as the 
size of the pig and the severeness of the case seem 
to require. The tansy juice can be obtained. by 
soaking and pressing the leaf, and is best given in 
whiskey as a drench. 

KIDNEY WORM. 

Diseases of the kidneys are readily cured by one 
dose of the Pneumonic Remedies. The kidneys 
being the secretive organs of the urine, are bene- 
fited by the effect of the nitre, one of the ingedients 
in the Compound Pneumonic Remedies. 

MEASLES. 

Cause. — Arising from an impure condition or 
state of the blood. The swine may have the enan- 
thesis, or measles, inwardly, and it not be noticed 
until slaughtered. 

Symptoms. — The hog will be noticed wheezing 
or breathing hard, and with an audible sound, as 
persons affected with asthma. 

Treatment. — Give one-fifth or sixth of a pint of 
Pneumonic Sovereign Remedy for the Swine. If 



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no relief in eight or ten hours, give the second and 
third dose. The medicine may be increased in 
quantity until the disease is overpowered. 

Remarks. — It will require two persons to drench 
the hog, unless the patent derrick crane is used for 
standing the hog up. One person must raise the 
hog up on its hind feet, and hold it, while the other 
person places a stick between the jaws to keep them 
open and pours the medicine down. It is best to 
use a funnel. 

The Patent Derrick Crane for placing the hog 
in a standing position, so that one person can 
drench him, can be had by sending five dollars to 
the proprietor, Thomas C. Raymer, Monroe, Green 
County, Wisconsin. Money should be sent by ex- 
press or post office order. 

RHEUMATISM. 

Cause. — Caused from an inflammation or a weak- 
ness of the muscles, most frequently occurring 
among hogs that have been put up in a close pen, 
and fattened for some time, and have become very 
fat. The hog lying around, the muscles fail to in- 
crease in strength in proportion as the hog increases 
in weight. The consequences are they are more 
or less strained every time the hog rises up, which 
causes inflammation, and weakens the muscles, 
mostly occurring in the hind legs, on account of the 
whole weight being thrown on the hind legs as the 
hog rises. Swine owners will notice that rheumatism 
rarely occurs in the fore legs. 



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Treatment. — The hog should have more exer- 
cise and a larger lot to roam over. As soon as the 
lameness is noticed, the legs can be improved by 
washing frequently in hot vinegar. 

RUPTURE 

OR PROTRUSION OF THE VISCERA OR RECTUM. 

Cause. — Rupture is frequently caused from over- 
feeding the hog, and sometimes by a strain that 
causes a portion of the rectum to be forced out. 
This will be readily noticed when going to feed. 

Treatment. — Remove the hog to a separate 
pen, and quit the feed for one, two, or three days, 
as the case may require, until the rectum passes 
back, then increase the food for two or three weeks 
before feeding the usual amount ; then feed regu- 
larly three times a day. 

EMPROSTHOTONOS. 

Cause. — Trichina, affecting the muscles of the 
hog and causing them to become diseased. 

Symptoms. — This disease is noticeable only by 
frightening the hog suddenly; the attempt to run 
causes a spasmodic action of the voluntary mus- 
cles which will cause the hog to fall and become 
helpless. This disease is rarely found, only about 
one in every one thousand, and is rarely any loss to 
the farmer, as the hog fattens as well as any other. 

Precaution. — In using the meat from such a 
hog it should be thoroughly cooked, as the muscles 
are the hardest parts to cook done, and the tri- 
china is most frequently found in the muscles ; the 



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safest way is not to use such a hog for food, and 
every owner of swine should give their hogs a 
fright before slaughtering, to ascertain if there are 
any symptoms of trichina or emprosthotonos. 

Remarks. — All farmers who have slaughtered or 
dressed swine for the market have frequently 
noticed the unhealthy condition of the lights and 
liver. The disease of the lights is caused from 
impurities in the air, and that of liver from the food 
not constituting the proper elements of the blood. 

Precaution. — Hogs fed on shorts are very 
much more liable to have the Pneumonia or dis- 
eases of the lights or liver, on account of the con- 
dition the blood is placed in by too frequently feed- 
ing this food. 

CARE OF SWINE. 

Remarks. — If the farmer wishes a cross between 
the Polen .and Chester, always use the boar of the 
Polen stock, and the sow from the Chester. 

Reasons Why. — The pigs of the Polen at birth 
are smaller than the Chester white pigs, and by 
breeding the Polen sow from the Chester white, the 
pigs are larger than nature intended, which en- 
dangers the life of your sow ; whereby it will readily 
be seen, that breeding from the Chester sow, the 
pigs will be no larger at birth than nature intended. 

Notice. — And like precaution should be used in 
all crossings of the swine. This breeding young 
sows from older and larger boned boars, likewise 
endangers the life of your sow ; in breeding, the 



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sow and boar should be nearly of one age. After 
the sow has become with pig she should not be 
kept in too close a pen, but should have room to 
roam about, and change of food is necessary. 

Sows lying on their pigs is mostly caused by 
their bags becoming caked. 

Symptoms. — This will be readily noticed by the 
way the sow lies down; if the bags are-caked, the 
minute the weight comes on them the pain will be 
so great that the sow will rise again and tramp 
around over the pigs, almost crazy, and they have 
been known to go crazy from the fever and pain from 
the bags, but will slowly recover in a week or two, 
but not until the last one of the pigs is killed. 
When the sow lies down she has to throw herself 
so quickly on her side, that some of the pigs are 
caught and killed, she being unable to turn on her 
bags enough to release the pig. Sows that are 
troubled in this way should be fattened and turned 
off, as there has been no remedy yet discovered. 

Precaution. — The sow should be regularly fed 
while with pig, and should not be allowed to cross 
any place where her bags will scrape, or she is 
liable to have some dead pigs, which greatly 
endangers the life of the sow, by being harder to 
give birth to. The sow should not be allowed more 
than one-half of the usual amount of food two 
days before and two or three days after pigging; 
then the food should be increased in quantity and 
variety, as the pigs increase in weight. 

At weaning time the pigs should not be shut up, 



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and should be given a variety of food ; oats and 
milk are the best. Feed corn sparingly, to pre- 
vent heating the blood of your pigs. Boiled pota- 
toes are good. Shorts are good but dangerous, on 
account of the condition they place the blood in, 
and if fed, mix some of the Pneumonic medicine 
in the swill, which will prevent the liver from 
becoming diseased. 

When ready to fatten, increase the food gradually 
and cautiously, or the hog may become stalled, and 
lose its appetite. If the appetite is lost feed them 
with salt, ashes, charcoal and a variety of food. 

TO PREVENT HOGS FROM FIGHTING. 

Many farmers are greatly annoyed by their hogs 
fighting while shut in a pen to fatten, which can be 
avoided by not inclosing them in too small a pen for 
the first two or three weeks ; but after that you can 
make your pen as small as you like. 

Farmers that are so situated should never fatten 
their hogs for the market during the months of 
November, December and January, for the reason 
that the bulk of the pork goes into the market at 
that time, and is always low, as the price of pork 
is governed, like all other things, according to the 
quantity in the market and the demand. 

It pays to feed corn to hogs when you are get- 
ting ten times as much per hundred, live weight, 
for your pork, as you could get per bushel for your 
corn. All farmers lose money by selling corn un- 
less they live close to the best markets or to good 
water transportation to some Eastern market. 



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